Example sentences of "went [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again and again he swiped at Chloe , but she remained convinced that this was a game and every time her friend approached she darted away and went to sit somewhere else in the clearing , her tail brushing the ground frantically . |
| 2 | She often went to sit quietly beside the hives , in the bee-field or on the moor . |
| 3 | She went to sit stiffly in the stern as they nosed cautiously out through the ranks of yachts , and then through the litter of fishing-boats , the bright Phoenician ‘ Eye of Osiris ’ painted on their bows , superstitiously warding off evil . |
| 4 | The rest of the day went to plan apart from the groom having to cut the wedding cake with a chainsaw but that 's another story . |
| 5 | Er went to nurse so I lent him bike . |
| 6 | I went to see where , she puts lollipop in school like and I went to see exactly she 's supposed to start at quarter to twelve so I went round there for quarter to twelve about five past twelve when she , it 's like yours . |
| 7 | Went to see Forever Young with Mel Gibson , the one where he 's frozen for fifty years and then he wakes up in |
| 8 | Well you know where Penny 's old desk were , where she sat looking up towards the , and Jenny sat there and Joan sat there , this Janet was sitting there and on that Friday morning when the phone had rung , well I got up and I went to go upstairs to take something or a fax coming for me or something , and as I went past Lynnette hit me on my shoulder and she said it 's me Pat , Pat she said it 's me , oh Pat I said what 's , what 's going on ? |
| 9 | Hari left the boy while she went to search upstairs for one of her father 's night-shirts . |
| 10 | Her eyes linked them until she went to pull together the curtains she knew very well had never met properly . |
| 11 | At night I tossed and turned to dreams of such emotional intensity that I went to work as tired as I was the day before . |
| 12 | This was the place of aloneness , this was where a man went to talk only with himself . |
| 13 | Marcus and the woman were just sitting there grinning at each other and talking so I went to track Shelly down . |
| 14 | And when I went to play occasionally near to their house , Mrs Thwaites would bring out large sweet biscuits for me . |
| 15 | They wanted to surprise their mother and get the breakfast ready , but first they went to look outside . |
| 16 | She got up and went to look outside . |
| 17 | As she went to walk past , Willi grabbed her by the arm and pushed her , quite roughly , into the passenger seat . |
| 18 | So I went to walk alone in the Alps . |
| 19 | And oh what were oh I went to I went to service then . |
| 20 | Both the laity and the English Cistercians themselves — who raised no objections to the statute — were doubtless eager to eliminate the apport , whether it went to finance indirectly either the pope or the king of France . |
| 21 | Elizabeth waited for a moment as though for someone else to open the door and then rose and went to do so herself . |
| 22 | you know , I went to market alright . |
| 23 | I 've got ta try hand it on for over a year then I went to live again . |
| 24 | They went to live elsewhere in Easterhouse in very poor accommodation . |
| 25 | But when Cecilia was married in 1940 and first went to live there it was thought a poor sort of house , semi-detached , shabby and in a dowdy district . |
| 26 | In April 1776 he resigned his fellowship and went to live there , residing in the parish for the rest of his life , a quiet existence broken only by journeys to see his relations in Somerset , on average once every three years . |
| 27 | Anne had four brothers , three of whom died young , and when the youngest brother Jeremy died in 1813 she inherited Shibden Hall ( now a folk museum ) , Halifax , and went to live there in 1815 with her aunt and uncle . |
| 28 | In 1988 the supervision order was quashed and she went to live permanently with her mother . |
| 29 | She went to turn away but he caught her . |
| 30 | If he went to stay somewhere with Margaret she unpacked her suitcase and put everything away , she did n't leave bags lying open all over the floor for someone to trip over . |